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Salih Altoma introduces a major feature on the pioneer Iraqi
novelist Ghaib Tu‘ma Farman, with excerpts from two of his novels – the
first time his work has been translated into English. The Literary Influences column charts the journey of Palestinian writer, scholar and translatorIssa J Boullata, while Moroccan poet and literator Mohammed Bennisis featured in an in-depth interview and poetry in translation by Camilo Gomez-Rivas.

Novelists include Saudi Arabian Yousef al-Mohaimeed with an excerpt from his novel The Bottle; Lebanese-Palestinian Nabil Abu Hamad with an excerpt from The Cripple, Lebanese Abbas Beydoun with an excerpt from Blood Test and Iraqi Duna Ghali with an excerpt from her novel When the Scent Awakens.

Poems
in translation are from Sargon Boulus, Issa Makhlouf, D H Melhem, Amira
Abul Husn, Salah al-Hamdani and Sinan Antoon. Just one short story in
this issue from Wafa Malih,entitled NO!

Books in BriefNew editions of Nawal el Saadawi’s The Hidden Face of Eve, God Dies by the Nile and Woman at Point Zero; Tales of Juha: Classic Arab Folk Humour; Distant Train by Ibrahim Abdel Megid; The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction, edited by Denys Johnson-Davies; Learning English by Rachid al-Daif translated by Paula and Adnan Haydar; The Journals of Sarab Affan by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra translated by Ghassan Nasr; Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri; Pyramid Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani translated by Humphrey Davies; The Last of the Angels by Fadhil al-Azzawi translated by William M Hutchins; Maryam’s Maze by Mansoura Ez-Eldin trans. Paul Starkey; Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef el-Mohaimed, trans Anthony Calderbank; Women on a Journey between Baghdad and London by Haifa Zangana, translated by Judy Cumberbatch; Being Abbas el Abd by Ahmed Alaidy trans. Humphrey Davies; The Essential Gibran and A Little Book of Love both compiled by Professor Suheil Bushrui; Swimming Toward the Light by Angela Tehaan Leone; Does the Land Remember Me? by Aziz Shihab; Arab Culture and the Novel – Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction, by Muhammad Siddiq; La Part de L’étranger by Kadhim Jihad Hassan; Voices of Exiles : A Study of al-Tayyib Salih and his Work by Ami Elad-Bouskila; Letters from Cairo by Pauline Kaldas; Rituals of Memory in Contemporary Arab Women’s Writing by Brinda Mehta